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Eastern Front
Red Army soldier waving the Soviet flag during the Battle of Stalingrad.
During Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union that began in 1941, German Army Group Centre was commanded by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock.
Bock led these central German forces during the early stages of the campaign, overseeing major offensives at Bialystok, Minsk, Smolensk, and Vyazma, as well as the subsequent drive toward Moscow in the fall of 1941.1